FRONT PAGE A1 Community rallies to help fire victims See A10 TOOELETRRANSCRIPT SERVING TOOELE COUNTY BULULLETIN SINCE 1894 TUESDAY July 26, 2016 www.TooeleOnline.com Vol. 123 No. 16 $1.00 Tooele man charged in homicide of his mother STEVE HOWE STAFF WRITER The Tooele man arrested last Friday in the homicide of his mother has been charged in 3rd District Court. Jesus “Jesse” Aragon, 44, has been charged with one count each of first-degree felony murder and first-degree felony aggravated burglary. The victim of the Friday morning homicide in Tooele City was identified by police as 66-year-old Marcella Aragon of Tooele. During a press conference around 1 p.m. Friday, Tooele Marcella Aragon City Police Officer Tanya Turnbow released the name of the suspect, who had been booked into the Tooele County Detention Center on charges of homicide, aggravated bur- glary and interference with an arresting officer, according to the probable cause statement. Tooele City police were dis- patched to Marcella Aragon’s home at 245 E. 600 North around 7:30 a.m. for suspi- cious circumstances and a welfare check, Turnbow said. The reporting party, who was a family member of the victim, alerted dispatch that Jesus DANIEL PACHECO/TTB PHOTO The Marcella Aragon home at 245 E. 600 North in Tooele was taped off Friday morning as Tooele City police investigated her murder. She was found dead SEE HOMICIDE PAGE A12 ➤ Jesus “Jesse” Aragon inside her home and her son, Jesus “Jesse” Aragon was arrested and booked into jail. He has been charged with first-degree felony murder. Lightning causes several fires in county FRANCIE AUFDEMORTE/TTB PHOTO The charred remains of a vehicle (above) smolders the morning after last Tuesday’s fire. STEVE HOWE Robert Johnson (right) of RA Johnson Excavating, Inc. donates his services to help clean STAFF WRITER up one of many properties damaged during the fire that destroyed or damaged 18 Four fires were started over homes. DANIEL PACHECO/TTB PHOTO the weekend in Tooele County, but none were human caused, according to a fire official. Two small fires were started Fire recovery just getting started in Tooele by lightning strikes, one near Terra and another that ignited STEVE HOWE a single tree near Hastings Pass STAFF WRITER in the Cedar Mountains, said As families displaced by Tooele County Fire Warden last Tuesday’s fire continue Daniel Walton. Both fires were to deal with the aftermath quickly extinguished. of the destructive blaze, A larger blaze also sprang Tooele County Emergency up from lightning strikes on Management director Bucky Bureau of Land Management Whitehouse is cautioning eager land near Aragonite around community volunteers to be midnight last Friday. The fire patient. expanded to 813 acres over- During a meeting between night but quickly petered out local government and local in the morning and was fully church and volunteer organi- extinguished shortly thereaf- zations Thursday afternoon, ter, Walton said. SUN AND MOON SEVEN-DAY FORECAST FOR TOOELE Whitehouse set about begin- UV INDEX Just days after a six-acre The Sun Rise Set WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAYning a coordinated MONDAY response TUESDAY fire burned down 10 homes Wednesday 6:22 a.m. 8:49 p.m. Thursday 6:23 a.m. 8:48 p.m. to the fire, which destroyed 10 and damaged an additional Friday 6:24 a.m. 8:47 p.m. homes and damaged at least eight residences, Tooele City Saturday 6:25 a.m. 8:46 p.m. Sunday 6:26 a.m. 8:45 p.m. 8 additional residences. He had another fire within its Monday 6:27 a.m. 8:44 p.m. reminded the stakeholders that W Th F Sa Su M Tu boundaries. Walton said the Tuesday 6:28 a.m. 8:43 p.m. recovery is both short-term The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ fire started north of Settlement The Moon Rise Set number, the greater the need for eye and skin Wednesday 1:04 a.m. 2:53 p.m. and long-term, but praised the protection. 0-2 Low; 3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Canyon and grew to more than Thursday 1:45 a.m. 4:00 p.m. assistance already shown by Very High; 11+ Extreme three acres before it was extin- Friday 2:31 a.m. 5:04 p.m. residents. guished by the Tooele City Fire Saturday 3:21 a.m. 6:05 p.m. ALMANAC “We appreciate everyone’s Sunday 4:17 a.m. 7:00 p.m. A thunderstorm Statistics for the week ending July 25. Department. Mostly sunny and very Mostly sunny and very Times of clouds and Sunshine and very A thunderstorm in Partly sunny, warm; a Monday 5:16 a.m. 7:50 p.m. outpouringpossible of support in the for Temperatures There was also a small grass Tuesday 6:18 a.m. 8:33 p.m. warm warm sun warm spots in the afternoon stray p.m. t-storm the fire that occurredafternoon on Van High/Low past week 101/60 fire Friday night by Adobe Last New First Full Dyke Street, in particular the Normal high/low past week 93/67 Rock Products in Stansbury 98 71 100 72 98 73 98 76 96 75 94 66 96 72 Average temp past week 82.9 trailer park off Coleman,” said Normal average temp past week 79.8 Park, which was caused by a TOOELE COUNTY WEATHERWhitehouse, who also serves Daily Temperatures High Low lightning strike, according to July 26 Aug 2 Aug 10 Aug 18 Shown is Wednesday’s as Tooele City Fire Chief. DANIEL PACHECO/TTB PHOTO North Tooele Fire District pub- Forecasts and graphics provided by weather. Temperatures are Wednesday’s highs and Alexis Candelario and Breelee Sprouse said they were “just helping” when asked why they were volunteering during clean up and recovery work AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 ➤ ➤ Wednesday night’s lows. SEE RECOVERY PAGE A8 at one of many properties damaged during Tuesday’s fire that displaced dozens of citizens. SEE FIRES PAGE A9 UTAH WEATHER Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Logan BULLETIN BOARD A8 Grouse 97/54 Wendover PrecipitationINSIDE (in inches) Creek 100/71 Knolls Clive WEATHER Lake Point CLASSIFIEDS B4 93/64 100/72 100/71 96/71 Ogden Stansbury Park State awards STEM Rev. Sam Dinsdale HOMETOWN A10 97/68 Erda 97/71 OBITUARIES A8 Vernal Grantsville 98/72 Pine Canyon title to Overlake to leave Tooele Salt Lake City 96/62 99/72 87/64 OPEN FORUM A4 Tooele 101/72 Bauer Elementary after six years 98/71 Last Normal Month Normal Year Normal 98/70 Tooele Week for week to date M-T-D to date Y-T-D SPORTS B1 Provo Roosevelt 98/71 See A2 See A3 98/61 97/62 See Stockton Pollen Index Price complete 98/69 98/63 High Nephi forecast Rush Valley 98/58 98/65 Ophir Moderate on A9 92/67 Low Delta Manti Absent 101/66 97/58 Green River Tu W Th F Sa Su M 103/68 Dugway Source: Intermountain Allergy & Asthma Richfield Gold Hill 99/66 99/59 Moab 95/71 RIVERS AND LAKES Hanksville 104/69 Beaver 101/68 Vernon In feet as of 7 a.m. Monday 97/59 Ibapah 98/62 24-hour 98/62 Stage Change Vernon Creek at Vernon 0.88 none Cedar City Blanding South Willow Creek St. George 99/60 96/64 at Grantsville 1.47 none 110/81 Kanab 101/65 Eureka 92/62 Great Salt Lake Elevation at Saltair Boat Harbor 4189.95 A2 A2 TOOELE TRANSCRIPT BULLETIN TUESDAY July 26, 2016 Beehive Broadband prepares for more service expansion TIM GILLIE customer handles the service Wilson said. “Here at Lake Brothers personally strung STAFF WRITER to the residents, he said. Point, we are remote, but only surplus military wire on poles Apartment dwellers in The company serves around 20 minutes from Salt Lake. to bring the first telephone Denver, Colorado may get 2,500 customers with a mix of We also have redundant data service to Grouse Creek in the their data service through Lake 60 percent residential and 40 connection with the Wasatch isolated northwest corner of Point, Utah. percent business. Wilson said Front.” Utah. Lake Point-based Beehive the company has an aggressive A small outbuilding at Today, Beehive Broadband Broadband sold its end user goal to add 900 new customers Beehive Broadband’s Lake has brought its fiber optic net- wireless service customers, in 2016. Point campus is currently work to rural communities like formerly known as Wireless “At the end of June, we were dedicated to data center equip- Grouse Creek, Park Valley in Beehive, to Digis in 2013. Digis at 400 new customers,” he ment. Box Elder County, and Ticaboo later became Rise Broadband. said. “We’re not too far off our “It’s full of racks of servers in Garfield County. Beehive Broadband used goal.” and data storage equipment,” The company’s com- the capital from the sale of Working with residen- Wilson said. “There’s a lot of mercial customers include its wireless business into tial developers, Beehive blinking lights in there.” FamilySearch, student housing expanding its fiber-optic Broadband has been laying Wilson said he expects at Brigham Young University, network, according to Scott fiber optic lines in new neigh- the growth of the company’s the Utah Motorsports Campus, Wilson, president of Beehive borhoods at the same time data center business to Cabela’s Distribution Center In Broadband. trenches are open for water, require the restoration of an Tooele City, and television ser- Six years later, Beehive power and other utilities.